Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary, Spontaneous Speech?
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“A word is not just the sum of its individual sounds; just as connected speech is not just the sum of its individual words.” (Underhill, 1994 p. 58) Why do […]
Elocution Teaching and Its Place in ELT
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Elocution Teaching and Its Place in ELT Tiptoeing through the minefield of international business communication in itself is already stressful enough, as speaking another language is not merely about learning […]
Why Use the IPA in Class
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By Steve Hirschhorn The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the result of work by 19th and early 20th century phoneticians such as Henry Sweet, Otto Jesperson and later Daniel Jones […]
The Recent History of Pronunciation Teaching in English Language Teaching
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by Steve Hirschhorn In Europe, pronunciation teaching prior to the late 19th c relied largely on imitation along with approximations derived from spelling and so, unsurprisingly, little was written on […]
Phil Wade Interviews: Dan Frost
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Phil Wade Interviews: Dan Frost Dan Frost has a French doctorate in English for Specific Purposes and Teaching Theory. After reading Languages and Linguistics at York University, he taught English […]
Book Review: The Book of Pronunciation
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The Book of Pronunciation When I was first doing my CELTA course in Seoul, South Korea, I learnt lots of new techniques and ideas which I could use in my […]
IELTS speaking – what is Cambridge looking for? Part 4 – Pronunciation
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IELTS speaking – what is Cambridge looking for? Part 4 – Pronunciation. Hello and welcome back to the final article in this series, looking this time at Pronunciation. If you […]
The IPA Vowel Chart and Teaching Pronunciation
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The IPA Vowel Chart and Teaching Pronunciation One spring afternoon in 2001, I was ten steps away from entering my Adult ESL class when a little idea popped into my […]